Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Sound effects – Reverberators
Patent
1988-11-10
1992-02-25
Isen, Forester W.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Sound effects
Reverberators
381 684, 381 93, 381 94, H04R 2500
Patent
active
050919520
ABSTRACT:
Acoustic feedback in digital signal processing hearing aids is suppressed by using signal processing techniques in the digital processor. A first processing technique causes the data to the main signal processing path in the digital signal processor to be delayed by varying amounts over time, preferably in a periodic manner, to disrupt the buildup of feedback resonances. In a second technique, a digital filter receives the input data and has its coefficients adjusted so that the output of the filter is substantially an optimal estimate of the current input sample based on past input samples. The output of the filter is then subtracted from the input signal data to provide difference signal data which substantially cancels out the resonant frequencies. In a third technique, the acoustic feedback path from the output to the input of the hearing aid is modeled in the digital signal processor as a delay and a linear filter. The output of the main signal processing path in the digital signal processor is delayed and the delayed data passed through the linear filter, with the output of the filter then being substracted from the input signal data to provide difference signal data which is provided to the main signal processing path. The coefficients of the digital filter in the feedback path are adjusted so that the signal passed through the feedback filter substantially corresponds to of the acoustic feedback signal to thereby cancel the same.
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Isen Forester W.
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
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